Credit Controller

Credit Controller Required to work for manufacturing business based in Milton Keynes

Your tasks

• Ensuring customers pay their invoices on time and addressing overdue accounts promptly.
• Proactively monitor the Sales process to ensure processes are followed and if improvements should be made.
• Ensuring payments received are accurately allocated to invoices and bank statement is mirrored in the SAP system.
• Maintaining accurate credit limits, payment terms, and risk classifications in SAP.
• Ensuring adherence to company credit policies and maintaining proper documentation within SAP.
• Monitoring and resolving payment disputes or discrepancies quickly to avoid prolonged delays.
• Collaborating with other modules (e.g., Sales and Distribution, Finance) to ensure seamless credit-related processes, match advance payments and correct errors or mismatches.
• Support the billing process including milestones, prepayments and card payments.
• Work with Sale team to maximise sales & minimise risk, review historic payment behaviour and run credit check reports.
• Proactive chasing of debtors to ensure timely payment, place overdue accounts on hold and appropriate action taken.
• Work with the sales team to ensure all customer orders are proactively checked in advance and help leverage collection of delinquent accounts
• Maintenance of customer data ensuring that SAP is accurate and up to date.
• Keeping clear and traceable records in SAP for financial and compliance audits.
• Processing of invoices from the Labels company to other Intercompany.

Your profile

• Minimum three years' experience in Credit Control and good understanding of the business' processes around Sales and Credit Control.
• Excellent communication skills both on the phone and written with an ability to build relationships both internally and externally.
• Working knowledge of the legal process that needs to be followed from customer account creation to requesting legal proceedings being issued.
• Experience of SAP essential working knowledge of MS Office.

Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.